UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18121

The consentAdmin module in SimpleSAMLphp through 1.14.15 is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Scripting attack, allowing an attacker to craft links that could execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the victim's web browser...

Session Fixation

github.com/ory/hydra is vulnerable to session fixation attacks. A malicious user can pass a consent uri missing a CSRF token to the user and log in afterwards as that user through a callback url...

OnePlus Confirms Credit Card Breach Impacted Up to 40,000 Customers

OnePlus has confirmed that up to 40,000 customers have been affected by a credit card breach, in the latest embarrassing misstep for the Chinese handset maker. The news comes several days after OnePlus shut down credit card processing following complaints from customers about fraudulent charges...

CVE-2017-6679

The Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance Version 2.0.3 and prior contained an undocumented encrypted remote support tunnel SSH which auto initiated from the customer's appliance to Cisco's SSH Hubs in the Umbrella datacenters. These tunnels were primarily leveraged for remote support and allowed for...

Hundreds Of websites mining cryptocurrency without user consent

By Waqas Previously it was reported that torrent search platform The Pirate This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hundreds Of websites mining cryptocurrency without user consent...

Microsoft Outlook Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Outlook fails to properly validate authentication requests. To exploit the vulnerability an attacker would have to trick a user into browsing to a malicious website or to an SMB or UNC path destination. Alternatively the attacker could...

Android Spyware Still Collects PII Despite Outcry

UPDATE LAS VEGAS—Shanghai Adups Technology Co. was roundly criticized Wednesday during a Black Hat session for continuing to use spyware called Adups on at least two Android handset makers’ phones. Researchers said the company was still collecting personal identifiable information without user...

Roombas will Spy on You

The company that sells the Roomba autonomous vacuum wants to sell the data about your home that it collects. Some questions: What happens if a Roomba user consents to the data collection and later sells his or her home -- especially furnished -- and now the buyers of the data have a map of a home...

Cookie consent from silktide, Unknown version, Other

Cookie consent from silktide, Unknown version, Malicious links aka https://cookieconsent.insites.com/download/ When the Cookie Consent plugin by Silktide stopped using Amazon CDN, someone hijacked their Amazon storage and began serving malicious scripts so that sites that still use old version of...

US Senate Just Voted to Let ISPs Sell Your Web Browsing Data Without Permission

The ISPs can now sell certain sensitive data like your browsing history without permission, thanks to the US Senate. The US Senate on Wednesday voted, with 50 Republicans for it and 48 Democrats against, to roll back a set of broadband privacy regulations passed by the Federal Communication...

CVE-2017-0529

An information disclosure vulnerability in the MediaTek driver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to access sensitive data without explicit user permission. Product: Android. Versions: N/...

WAF Security Benchmark: WAFPASS

WAF Security Benchmark WAFPASS Analysing parameters with all payloads’ bypass methods, aiming at benchmarking security solutions like WAF. Today a great number of website owners around the globe use “Web Application Firewalls” to improve their security. However, these security applications suffer...

CVE-2016-6719

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Bluetooth component in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-11-01, and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to pair with any Bluetooth device without user consent. This issue is...

CVE-2016-6716

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the AOSP Launcher in Android 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could allow a local malicious application to create shortcuts that have elevated privileges without the user's consent. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a local bypass of user interaction...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6719

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Bluetooth component in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-11-01, and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to pair with any Bluetooth device without user consent. This issue is...

iPhone Call History Synced to iCloud Without User Consent, Knowledge

iPhone users are being warned that their call history may be synced and stored on their iCloud account without their knowledge, making their personal phone records a target for a determined third party. Under a common configuration scenario, where two iPhones share the same Apple ID and are set t...

New Privacy Rules require ISPs to must Ask you before Sharing your Sensitive Data

Good News for privacy concerned people! Now, your online data will not be marketed for business; at least by your Internet Service Providers ISPs. Yes, it's time for your ISPs to ask your permission in order to share your sensitive data for marketing or advertisement purposes, the FCC rules. On...

Germany Orders Facebook to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users

A German privacy regulator issued an order this week prohibiting Facebook from collecting user data on German WhatsApp users, calling the company’s actions misleading and in violation of the nation’s data protection law. The move comes a few weeks after a recent WhatsApp policy change that said t...

Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint over WhatsApp Data Sharing with Facebook

Alleging a trail of broken promises, two privacy-focused advocacy groups yesterday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against a recent WhatsApp privacy policy change that states it will begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook. The Electronic Privacy Information Cente...

Mozilla: Entering fullscreen and persistent pointerlock without user permission (MFSA 2016-58)

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service UI outage, or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site...